Which historic event occurred the year you were born?

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  • naford93
    naford93 Posts: 16 Member
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    Dec 29th 1993 --Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
  • smlesan
    smlesan Posts: 63
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    1995 events:

    1. OJ Simpson trial
    2. Classic "Forest Gump" movie comes out
    3. Microsoft released Windows 98
    4. Truck Bomb devastates Oklahoma City Federal Building killing 168 people
    5. An unprecedented heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States Temperatures exceed 104°F in the afternoon for 5 straight days. At least 3000 people die, 750 in Chicago, Illinois alone.
    6. DVDs are first introduced


    Popular Films:

    Toy Story
    Batman Forever
    Apollo 13
    Pocahontas
    Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
    GoldenEye
    Casper
    Jumanji
    Die Hard With a Vengeance
    Braveheart


    Popular Musicians:

    Supergrass
    Deep Blue Something
    Weezer
    Smashing Pumpkins
    Rage Against The Machine
    Van Halen
    Whitney Houston
    Mariah Carey
    Alanis Morissette
    Madonna
    Garth Brooks
    Blues Traveler
    Janet Jackson
  • gerard54
    gerard54 Posts: 1,107 Member
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    Dec 31st 1982 - I was born...
  • runner2runner
    runner2runner Posts: 1,937 Member
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    Another important event in 1981.

    CNN's first broadcast takes place in Atlanta.
  • FitnessCharl
    FitnessCharl Posts: 166
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    I just googled it and wow, that's depressing.

    War, cyclones, earth quakes, plane crashes, assassinations, train disasters, serial killers, drought, floods, riots, terrorist attacks.

    It wasn't a good year. But on the plus side: I was born! Yay.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988

    Honestly, that's like every other year. Bad stuff always happens somewhere.

    1988 looked dreadful....

    Cliff Richard had a number 1 with "Mistletoe and Wine" on my birthday...That will haunt me for the rest of my life...
  • VeganSurfer
    VeganSurfer Posts: 383 Member
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981
  • Woolified
    Woolified Posts: 65 Member
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    Pac-Man is released :o)
  • annwyatt69
    annwyatt69 Posts: 727 Member
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    Man walked on the moon when I was 6 months old.
  • nas061
    nas061 Posts: 256 Member
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    When I was 1 month old Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
  • justicer68
    justicer68 Posts: 1,223
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    The day I was born:
    1st record under Apple label, Beatle's Hey Jude

    The year I was born:

    A Year to Remember
    1968: A pivotal year in U.S. history that saw assertions of Black Power at the Olympic Games, the national launch of Pittsburgh-produced "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," stardom for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, the debut of locally made cult classic "Night of the Living Dead," and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The year began with the Tet Offensive, the deadliest period of an increasingly divisive Vietnam War, and ended with hope for the future, as the Apollo 8 capsule beamed back images of "Earthrise" from the far side of the moon for the first time.
  • 4bigeasy
    4bigeasy Posts: 51 Member
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    JKF was assassinated.
  • Aello11
    Aello11 Posts: 312 Member
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    Oh hell I feel old now :wink:

    Patsy Cline died the day I was born
    JFK assassinated
  • gueritaz
    gueritaz Posts: 2 Member
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    1972- Watergate....smh!
  • Fatbirdtalking
    Fatbirdtalking Posts: 44
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    The Great Train Robbery took place in Buckinghamshire UK where I was born and still live and JFK was assassinated.
    Both events I didn't actually know the year of so was interesting question for me to look up .
  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
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    Here is one for your fantasy football fans...

    1983 - US Football League holds its 1st player draft
  • MSeel1984
    MSeel1984 Posts: 2,297 Member
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    I was born April 20th...

    Two other bad things happened that same day.

    1.) Adolf Hitler was born
    2.) The Columbine Shooting.

    That's the day I was born, not the year...

    But, the first Macintosh personal computer was unveiled!
  • liesevanlingen
    liesevanlingen Posts: 508 Member
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    On my birthday in 1971-- Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
  • Spartan_Maker
    Spartan_Maker Posts: 683 Member
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    First American combat troops were sent to Vietnam.
  • delonda1
    delonda1 Posts: 525 Member
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    1991-

    George Bush declares war on Iraq
    Seinfeld debuts
    Rodney King beat by LA police
  • KentWhiteRabbit
    KentWhiteRabbit Posts: 92 Member
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    1971 - I knew a few of these but others were surprising.

    BBC Open University began
    The Aswan dam officially opened in Egypt
    Rolls Royce goes bankrupt and is nationalised
    Switzerland gives women voting rights
    Decimalisation Day! UK and Ireland switch to decimal currency – I month after I was born
    Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars
    Boxer Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden.
    Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors is found dead in his bathtub
    Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco makes Prince Juan Carlos his successor.
    British troops are stationed on the Ireland border to stop arms smuggling.
    Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.
    Foundation of Greenpeace.
    The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins as Pakistan launches preemptive attacks 9 Indian airbases.
    Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPAnet e-mail between host computers.

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